28 posts tagged “music”

Part of the joy of the internet is it allows me to find music without having to find music. Old news, right?

Check her out. Hopie Spitshard. She's from SF. She's not a woman doing hip hop. She's doing hip hop and she happens to be a woman.

LUV HER!

black summers' night

I love Maxwell.  I can't really put it into better words, but you know how you have that one artist that's just YOUR artist. He's that artist for me.

And then there was Pretty Wings:

And you know how you have that one song that is just YOUR song. This is that song for me.

I wasn't in the holiday mood for various reasons until I heard the following on my morning show:

And when I heard them I felt good.  So good.  I love Christmas, ya'll.

We did a tree.

My brother and sis-in-law are coming home.

There will be food.

I got my kid and niece an awesome present. 

I'm feeling GOOD.

THEN.

And there is a then.

THEN, through the wonders of youtube, I found a video of Straight No Chaser (the site is slow!) performing two classic 90's R&B jams.  Ya know.  Back when R&B was hella good??

Enjoy.  Consider this my XMas gift to the world.

Cop the album.  Kinda immediately.

I have insane love for John Legend.  His previous two albums are (Get Lifted, Once Again) are two of the most played albums on my iPod.  This is creeping up there after only hours of playtime.

I've seen him live, and he's just as good.  That's why he had the gall to drop a CD of live tracks after only his sophomore album.  He's just that freaking good. 

And he knows it. 

Most of his tracks are along the lines of, "I know you wanna hit this."  I don't (cus he's a li'l guy...), but I'm sure he gets mucho play to be writing some of the stuff he writes.  Per the LA Times...

"Even when soul singer John Legend is proposing one of the traditionally worst ideas in romance — sleeping with his best friend — he still makes a pretty convincing argument. “Not just my homegirl, time that I take you home, girl,” he sings on the pristine piano-and-808 ballad “Cross the Line.”"

Indeed.

Anyway.  Get this.  Thank me later.

I used to think that was a hella corny saying. 

'Til I started doing it.  It's therapeutic.  Tuning stuff out with the iPod in the street, in the car, in the house, at the office, in the elevator.

In the elevator this morning, I was listening to my new favorite jam (that deserves a whole post when I get to my comp with my music) and dancing and singing and there were two guys in there with me.  One surly dood who is always hella surly and who will probably always be hella surly.  One guy from the 6th floor (note to self: more on that later too) who I hadn't seen before.

Surly dood got off.

Then it was just me and the guy from the 6th floor and my iPod. 

When the guy from the 6th floor was getting off, he said it was awesome that I was grooving in the elevator, of all places.

And that's part of why you should just dance and sing whenever you wanna, cus someone, somewhere will appreciate it.  Maybe even in the elevator, of all places.

Propheta

I don't know how or why, but this song is in my iPod and it just came on the shuffle playlist.  iTunes gives me free downloads, and this is one of them.  But WHY?!  WHYYYY?

His name is Propheta.

Suggest some new music to me.  Anything.

I like to think I have an accepting ear.  I like a whole lotta music.

Here's what my iPod put on for me this morning:

1. Through Toledo - Greg Laswell
2. Got Money - Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain
3. My City - Common
4. Thug Motivation 101 - Young Jeezy
5. Better - Regina Spektor
6. Hitchin' a Ride - Green Day
7. Weather Storm - Craig Armstrong
8. Pitchin' Pennies - Common Sense
9. A Better Tomorrow - Common (lotsa Common)
10. Footprints in the Sand - Leona Lewis

Up until the last track, I had a little music cred going on there.  I little hip hop.  A little rock.  A little indie.  A little rap.  Then Leona Lewis.  She wussified me.  I'm ok with it though.  Cus I'm hella into pop too.  But I had an image going on there for a sec, and that wasn't my inner-pop-princess.  It's ok though.

Maxwell is coming to concert on October 28.

Maxwell!